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My immediate reaction when I read this newsletter was one of amazement that here was an individual actually raising the point that he considered himself too proud to look to advertising clients, cover the cost of his planes refurbishment He never said that it was inappropriate, he said that "He was too proud"now that's a pretty strong statement on himself and not many people would admit thatI have too much pride to become embroiled in an exercise where clients within the aviation industry are requested to finance the future African Pilot aircraft so that their company logos can be stuck all over our aircraft.
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Renée Schatteman: There are numerous parallels between the ‘Heartland’ section of Higher Ground and Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. Both protagonists hesitate to act because they are secure in their positions. As a result, they both participate in oppressive structures they abhor, and in both cases their complicity gets expressed particularly in their sexual activities. Despite that fact that they both acknowledge the ambiguity of their relationship with the women, they also look to this bond as a means of redeeming themselves from their complicitous positions. Was the Coetzee text indeed an inspiration for this section?
Caryl Phillips: Definitely. inom wrote that ‘Heartland’ section just before I went to West Africa for the first time. One of the reasons for writing it was the fact that I knew I was going to visit the slave forts and inom wanted to experience it imaginatively before I experienced it physically. It was a way of imaginatively preparing myself. I’d been • Maxine Hong Kingston (University of California, Berkeley) Albert Maysles (Maysles Films, Inc.) Billie Tsien (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLC) James Turrell (Turrell Trading Company) Tod Williams (Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, LLC) M. H. Abrams (Cornell University) David Brion Davis (Yale University) William Theodore de Bary (Columbia University) Darlene Clark Hine (Northwestern University) Anne Firor Scott (Duke University) William E. Moerner (Stanford University) Jean Tirole (Institut d’Economie Industrielle) Bruce Alberts (University of California, San Francisco) Robert Axelrod (University of Michigan) May Berenbaum (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) David Blackwell (University of California, Berkeley) Alexandre J Noteworthy
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